Following are excerpts from an interview with Egyptian cleric Yousuf Al-Badri, which aired on Al-Alam TV on December 29, 2011.

Yousuf Al-Badri: Today, the Islamic nation must unite against the dangers that surround it - Iran, the Sunni East... the Sunni Maghreb, and all the Islamic states must unite.

The nuclear bombs of Iran and Pakistan should be bombs against Israel. We shall chant, like we chanted in Tehran: "Death to Israel. Death to America." We must stand united, because the Sunnis and the Shiites are the two wings of Islam. Anybody who tries to sow discord in this nation is a sinner, sinner, sinner.

Calls upon Sunnis and Shiites to Unite..... yeah. when hell freezes over. It is well known that Sunnis and Shiites consider each other worse than Jews. Difficult to imagine the hatred and rancor they must have for each other.

Sometimes you hear about some Sunni blowing up a Shiite mosque or some Shiite blowing himself up in a crowd of Sunnis......Personally, I have a hard time feeling sympathy. If they want to waste their time blowing up eachother instead of us, who am I to complain?

Sometimes you hear..... It's a moment-to-moment occurence.. a busload of Shiite pilgrims, men, women, children, commandered by Sunnis in Eastern Iraq ordered out, killed right there on the road, on the spot, centuries of accumulated strife like this. Islam, the Devil's tyranny, thus always to tyrants, their death, destiny.

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